Adobe has issued an update to Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash Player) that patches several serious security vulnerabilities. The latest version is Flash Player 9.0.47.0 They’ve also updated the older version 7 to version 7.0.70.0. The patch may be installed through the auto update feature of Flash Player or you can visit the [...] Read more »
Apple Adds to Patch Tuesday
Apple joins the the Tuesday patch party and releases a security update for Quicktime along with a bugfix update for iTunes. The patches are for the software on both Windows and OS X. The Quicktime update, to version 7.2 includes eight security vulnerability fixes some of which will allow code execution. It also includes updates [...] Read more »
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2007
It’s the second Tuesday of July and that means patches from Microsoft. This month brings six patches, three rated critical, two important, and one moderate. Only five of the patches (and only two of the critical patches) are for desktops. The sixth patch only affects server operating systems. Windows Vista also gets its own unique [...] Read more »
Vulnerability Pits Firefox Against IE
A new zero-day vulnerability exists when both Firefox 2.x and Internet Explorer are installed on the same machine. The exploit is most likely to be available on PCs with Firefox 2.0.0.2 installed due to changes made for Microsoft Vista compatibility. The general consensus of the comments are that both applications contribute the the exploit. Firefox [...] Read more »
Spam Counts for Week Ending June 24, 2007
My GMail spam count jumped 13% to 343 spam messages in the last 30 days. This was up from 303 last week. My second GMail account hasn’t received any new phishing emails and was spam free. I continue to get a small number of spam emails to my ISP account. This is one that I’ve [...] Read more »